Life is like Dosa Batter

I know when people read the subject, they would 1st laugh looking at comparison done. But on one of the evenings when I was involved in some deep thinking on what life is all about, I had to make dosas & this kind thought suddenly stuck me: our life is so much like dosa batter.

When someone looks at the Dosa Batter, it looks white, smooth and nice. Something very similar to our life. It looks smooth and nice & white (Peaceful) to any outsider. Life looks very smooth and nice when some looks from outside. Yes, though it is smooth most of the times, there will be some roller coaster rides now & then and only those really close to you will be able to see that the smooth and nice look is only from outside. Only Dosa batter knows the amount of grinding it has to go through to get that smooth and nice look just like the way human beings are grinded!!

Next stage is when dosa is put on the tawa. Slowly we will see that it has pores... just like the way our life has pores and issues in life. Dosa batter which was looking white and smooth suddenly started developing the pores while exposed to tawa. This is so much similar to the experiences we have in real life. With each day passing by in this world, we have lot of issues which create holes or a gap within you. These holes gets more and more with every day passing, much similar to the dosa batter which develops pores much quicker than those which are freshly made when put on tawa.

Next stage is when the dosa is left on the tawa for a long time it gets roasted and gets very hard, just like any person who has become hard after facing series of problems in life. We only see that the dosa is hard but never realize why dosa got hard, just like the way we judge a person just by the ways he reacts to us or uses the words without realizing what caused that person to become what he is.

Now, think what happens to that dosa which is either too hard or which got torn off on the tawa while preparing!!! Nobody ever will want to eat that dosa. This amazes me again when I do the comparison with human life. Anyone who is extra hard or torn out in life because of various difficulties in life, nobody will ever want to accept that person!!!

Any Dosa which is baked to the perfect blend and looks nice is the one that everyone prefers to eat & relish much similar to the way people are treated. If you are nice and perfect everyone will want you in life. But the day you show that you hard, you are termed bad and no one will ever want you.

Last stage of Dosa, either it is eaten up or it is thrown. Irrespective of what has happened (eaten or thrown) Dosa's lifecycle has come to an end. Thoughts about making fresh batter is already in place and the next day fresh dosa batter would get ready... Irrespective of your good or bad, your life cycle comes to an end & new generation is ready to replace you!!!